Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Last ish we got you a dark site, or at least gave a few pointers as to how you and your fellow astronomy club members could find and keep one. A nice piggyback bracket so you can mount DSLR and lens on your telescope tube is a nice addition and you may find you like doing wide-field shots from dark locations. As a result, he’d compiled a vast grab bag of impressions before he’d even hit high school.

These power supplies have little plastic (wired) widgets that take the place of the normal battery in the battery compartment and supply power to the camera that way. Note: It is possible to use MediaRecorder without creating a camera preview first and skip the first few steps of this process.

Plus the intuitive iOS app lets you use your iPhone or iPad to manually control the camera while in mid-air—no matter if you’re walking down the street or celebrating a birthday in your living room. As the camera is relatively new, recommend contacting Canon and requesting warranty repair of the focus problem.

The camera is an S1 IS and has served me well for a few years and taken many, many (more than 7,000) pictures! Fix #3: Insert the cameras Audio/Video (AV) cable, and turn the camera on. Inserting this cable ensures that the camera’s LCD screen remains off during the start process.

The camera moves the IR Block Filter from in front of the sensor, and, I can say this with relative confidence, adjusts the focus for IR light wavelengths. New camera apps are helping smartphones to simulate the kind of advanced controls previously found only on sophisticated digital SLRs.